GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 44 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 245568 (249%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (about 588%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 169200 (588%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66400 (307%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.